52% have driven 15 mph over the speed limit on a freeway in the past month; 17% do this regularly.

41% say drivers speeding on freeways are a very serious threat to personal safety.

41% believe that most people consider it acceptable to drive 15 mph over the speed limit on freeways.

Only 24% consider it acceptable.

Speeding on Residential Streets

43% have driven 10 mph over the speed limit and 26% have driven 15 mph over the speed limit on a residential street in the past month.

However, 51% say drivers speeding on residential streets are a very serious threat to personal safety.

86% believe their neighbors consider it unacceptable to speed on a residential street.

94% consider it unacceptable to speed on a residential street.

Source: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, 2011.

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Speeding takes 866 lives each month.

Speeding takes 200 lives each week.

Speeding takes 28 lives each day.

Speeding takes 1.2 lives each hour.

Source: NHTSA, 2010.

The City of Scottsdale, Arizona launched the nation’s first speed safety camera program in 2006. The nine-month pilot program on Loop 101 was used to test the effects of a speed enforcement program on a stretch of the state’s highways. The results showed: